We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
Few maxims are true in every respect.
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.